Lean and Smart HR – Transforming Work

India is at an interesting cusp as the wave of digitization changes the work and workforce dynamics of the country. There is a new generation of companies coming up which is changing the way work is perceived or performed. From 9-5 desk jobs to part time jobs and multiple employments, this “Uberisation” of work will have a significant impact on the Human Resources function. As the HR function calliberates its processes and practices to the changing business needs , Lean & Smart HR (HR shared services and Technology) are going to be the game changers. With this is in mind National HRD Network organized its 4th National Summit on Workforce Technology and Shared Services, on 11th -12th Feb, at Leela Ambience, Gurgaon on the theme “Lean and Smart HR – Transforming Work”.

This one and a half day event saw over 20 Business Leaders who shared their views on how the world of work will change and what role Lean & Smart HR will play in this journey. The event was spread across 6sessions which covered various aspects of the theme.Emphasizing on the increased need for such summits in the country, the Summit Director, Pankaj Bansal, Regional President-North, NHRDN, and Co-Founder and CEO, PeopleStrong highlighted, “While 70-80% of HR oriented events in the United States and Europe focus on HR Shared Services and HR technology, Indian platforms need to increasingly discuss and learn from the experiences of latest and proven HR transformations. Especially now when India has an opportunity to be HR capital of the world lot more focus needs to come up.” The event saw Manoj Kohli, Chairman, Softbank as the Key note speaker, who shared how work has transformed in the past decade and how will it take up a new face all together in future. He shared that an organization has only 2 goals : Profitability and Happiness , achieving both requires a combination of Art and Science and HR needs maintain a golden balance in order to so.

Same were the thoughts of eminent business leaders who were part of the interesting deliberations which happened in the 6 sessions. Speakers included Anurag Malik, Partner, People & Organisation Advisory Services, EY, Sandeep Banerjee, CEO, Compass group, Abhijit Bhaduri, Chief Learning Officer, Wipro, Ester Matrinez, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, People Matters, Sandeep Sinha, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lumis Partners, Rajeshwar Triptahi, Chief People Officer, Automotive & Farm Equipment Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mr. Mr. Biplob Banerjee, Exec Vice President HR and CSR, Jubilant Foodworks, G Kalaiselvan, Head-Technology Transformation, BPCL, Srinivas Yelandur, Director & Digital Advisory Leader, EY, Anand Subbaraman, Vice President HCM Cloud Product Strategy, Oracle, B Srikanth,CHRO, Airtel, ShubhroBhaduri,CHRO, ABFSG, Sukhjit Pasricha, Vice President-HR, IndiGo

Workforce technology and Shared Services have a major role to play in the coming days to establish Lean & Smart HR structures and NHRDN’s summit was successful in projecting this in the minds of over future HR jobs in the country.

NHRDN, the national apex body of professionals committed to promoting the HRD movement in the country organized this event in partnership with Shine.com as Lead Sponsor, PeopleStrong - the HR Technology & Summit Partner, EY - The Knowledge Partner, Tata Sons as a Co-Sponsor, BIMTECH, Jaipuria Institute of Management and IFIM as the B-School Partners, , Edenred as an Associate Sponsor, People Matters as a Magazine partner, Gifts were sponsored by GIFT XOXO and Design and Communication partner was Fulki. The first national summit on HRSS was held at Mumbai in 2013, 2nd season in Bangalore in 2014 and 3rd Season in Mumbai last year. Speaking on the occasion Kamal Singh, Director General, National HRD Network shared that NHRDN has always tried to bring to focus the pressing needs of HR and help the next gen HR leaders in preparing for future. Such summits provide opportunity to the budding HR professionals to learn from the HR leaders and we are glad that people are increasingly catching this opportunity. That’s why the prospects of HR jobs in India are wide an open.